Virginia Cram-Martos, Directora

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WELCOME
Virginia Cram-Martos, Directora División de
Comercio y Maderas Comisión Económica para Europa
UN/CEFACT OVERVIEW 16 September 2008
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Topics

• CONTEXT
• CHALLENGES
• WAY FORWARD
• QUESTIONS

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UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION
AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESS
SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES
FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS
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CONTEXT

• Global Remit
• Instruments of Trade Facilitation and Electronic
  Business
• Recommendations
• Standards
• Public-Private Partnership
• About 300 volunteer experts around the world

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CONTEXT Other Organizations
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HIGH PRIORITIES 2008-2009

• Recommendation 34 - Implementation of Single
  Window
• Recommendation 35 - Legal Aspects of Single
  Window
• Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide
• Standards for implementations
• Core Components (library of data definitions for
  use in electronic interchanges)
• Technical Good Practices (methods/models)

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Facilitation of International Supply Chain
(Reference Model)
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Facilitation of International Supply Chain
(Reference Model)
BUY
PAY
SHIP
Prepare for Export
Prepare for Import
Transport
Export
Import

• Commercial
• Procedures
• Establish Sales Contract
• Order Goods
• Advise On Delivery
• Request Payment

• Transport
• Procedures
• Establish Transport Contract
• Collect Transport and Deliver Goods
• Provide Waybills, Goods Receipts Status Reports

• Regulatory
• Procedures
• Obtain Import/Export Licences
• Provide Customs Declarations
• Provide Cargo Declarations
• Apply Trade Security Procedures
• Clear Goods for Import/Export

• Financial
• Procedures
• Provide Credit Rating
• Provide Insurance
• Provide Credit
• Execute Payment
• Issue Statements

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Facilitation of International Supply Chain
(Reference Model)
BUY
PAY
SHIP
Prepare for Export
Prepare for Import
Transport
Export
Import

• Regulatory
• Procedures

• Financial
• Procedures

• Commercial
• Procedures

Transport Procedures
Efficiencies from re-using UN/CEFACT core
component vocabulary (end-to-end process)
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BI-ANNUAL EXPERT FORUMS AROUND THE WORLD

• Supported by Governments
• Provide face-to-face opportunities to convey
  UN/CEFACT trade facilitation and electronic
  business perspective
• Past and future host countries Canada, France,
  India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,
  Senegal, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

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EXPERT ACTIVITY AREAS

• Accounting Audit
• Agriculture
• Architecture, Engineering Construction
• Customs
• eGovernment
• Electronic Trade Documents
• Environmental Management
• Finance
• Health Care
• Insurance
• International Trade Procedures

• Social Services
• Supply Chain
• Transport
• Travel,Tourism and Leisure
• Business Process Analysis
• Harmonization
• Information Content Management
• Applied Technology
• Technical Methodologies
• Legal

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OUTREACH

• Raising awareness
• Capacity-building
• foster implementations
• encourage more experts to participate in
  programme of work

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GOVERNANCE
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GOVERNANCE
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GOVERNANCE

• UN/CEFACT Terms of Reference
• Trade Programme Strategic Framework
• Integrated Strategy and Programme of Work
• Open Development Process
• Intellectual Property Rights Policy
• Recent Task Team Report concluded it is adequate,
  effective, meets or exceeds the protection of
  other standards development organisations and is
  well-tailored to the requirements of UN/CEFACT

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CHALLENGES

• Outreach to intergovernmental constituencies
• Global Plenary stakeholders in national capitals
• Geneva Missions
• Resources
• Secretariat staffing and competing demands
• Volunteer experts
• Collaboration with other bodies to avoid
  duplication of effort and to offer open global
  solutions to common stakeholder needs, e.g. World
  Customs Organisation
• Facilitating capacity-building and
  implementations

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WAY FORWARD
electronic Business, Government and Trade
initiative eBGT

• 18-month initiative to facilitate achieving
  priority deliverables
• clarifying highest priorities of stakeholders
• identifying facilitation gaps in recommendations
  and standards
• improving outreach
• forming special volunteer eBGT expert support
  team
• seeking extra-budgetary funding

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QUESTIONSTrade_at_unece.orgINFORMATIONhttp/
/www.UNCEFACT.org